We have been asked so many times on what are difference among different SAP Cloud Platform Mobile services productive and preview editions (Standard, preview & Consumer) , how to get access to it, when one should be used, what are advantages of preview over productive and so on. this blog answers all these queries.

Let me first brief you on SAP Cloud Platform Mobile service (SCPms) for Development & Operations,

The SAP Cloud Platform, mobile Service (SCPms) for development & operations is a full-featured open, standard-based mobile app platform delivered as-a-service that allows you to quickly create and operate mobile apps with full offline support, notification services, superior back-end integration and enterprise-grade security.

You can test* existing application running on mobile services (assuming production landscape i.e. 1708) with mobile preview (i.e.1709) and prepare if any change is required before 1709 release available to production landscape subscribers.

*Testing means, we encourage and advise our customers to run their own AUTOMATED regression tested against preview edition

Minimising the adoption curve latencies

Official release to customer (RTC) happens into preview, this means that tickets against preview landscape are eligible for full SAP Cloud Enterprise support

If you don’t see “Preview” in your productive account – please open BCP ticket on component MOB-CLD-OPS